By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron has burst into the presidential race with an explosive remark about the country’s minority of unvaccinated people. Macron used the French word “emmerder” that is rooted in the French word for “crap” and means to rile or to bug. He spoke in an
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — World shares are mixed after heavy selling of technology shares cast a chill over the cheerful start to 2022 on Wall Street. Benchmarks rose in Paris, London and Tokyo but fell in Shanghai and Hong Kong. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices retreated. Added to
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By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — World shares are mixed after heavy selling of technology shares cast a chill over the cheerful start to 2022 on Wall Street. Benchmarks rose in Paris, London and Tokyo but fell in Shanghai and Hong Kong. U.S. futures were mixed and oil prices retreated. Added to
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Local news reports say demonstrators angered by rising fuel prices have stormed the mayor’s office in Kazakhstan’s largest city and attempted to break into the presidential residence. The intensifying protests led the Central Asian country’s government to reisgn. According to the reports, many of the demonstrators who converged on the mayoral office
Continue Reading MOSCOW (AP) — Local news reports say demonstrators angered by rising fuel prices have stormed the mayor’s office in Kazakhstan’s largest city and attempted to break into the presidential residence. The intensifying protests led the Central Asian country’s government to reisgn. According to the reports, many of the demonstrators who converged on the mayoral office
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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Some top Democratic operatives are terrified that their down-ballot candidates are responding too timidly to the threat of former President Donald Trump using this year’s midterm elections to launch a return to the White House, and they’ve formed a new group to raise the alarm. The super PAC, whose creation was
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By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The two visions of pandemic America have arrived at the US Supreme Court. To the Biden administration, this is a life-or-death moment. Administration lawyers defending a new workplace vaccination requirement highlight the human toll of the deadly virus, a collapsing health care system and the
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The past year has proved to be yet another incredibly difficult one for airlines as the slump in air travel continued throughout 2021 due to the impact of the ongoing pandemic. Even now, two years after Covid-19 was first brought to the world’s attention, there are still far fewer flights and passengers
Continue Reading By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has called for making it simpler for couples to adopt children as he presided over his first general audience of the New Year with a novel supporting cast. For the first time, a layman and a nun provided the English and Spanish translations of Francis’
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Amy Simonson, CNN Amtrak passengers traveling through Virginia were delayed for about 30 hours Monday night after trees downed during a winter storm blocked the train’s path. About 120 passengers were on the Crescent Train 20 when it was stopped north of Lynchburg, Amtrak spokesperson Christina Leeds told CNN. The train,
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Amy Simonson, CNN Amtrak passengers traveling through Virginia were delayed for about 30 hours Monday night after trees downed during a winter storm blocked the train’s path. About 120 passengers were on the Crescent Train 20 when it was stopped north of Lynchburg, Amtrak spokesperson Christina Leeds told CNN. The train,
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LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — The coach filling in for Jurgen Klopp while the Liverpool manager is in isolation with the coronavirus has also returned a suspected positive test for COVID-19. Liverpool says Pepijn Lijnders also is now self-isolating. It places into further doubt the likelihood of Liverpool’s first-leg match against Arsenal in the English League
Continue Reading By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has received the medical exemption he needs but the 20-time major champion may still have some explaining to do. The exemption allows the top-ranked Djokovic entry to the tournament regardless of his vaccination status for COVID-19. It’s a subject he has declined to
Continue Reading By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has received the medical exemption he needs but the 20-time major champion may still have some explaining to do. The exemption allows the top-ranked Djokovic entry to the tournament regardless of his vaccination status for COVID-19. It’s a subject he has declined to
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese real estate developer with $310 billion of debt is asking investors in one of its bonds to postpone when they will be repaid. Evergrande Group says it will conduct a three-day online vote starting Friday for holders of the 4.5 billion yuan ($700 million) bond. Evergrande is the global
Continue Reading BEIJING (AP) — A troubled Chinese real estate developer with $310 billion of debt is asking investors in one of its bonds to postpone when they will be repaid. Evergrande Group says it will conduct a three-day online vote starting Friday for holders of the 4.5 billion yuan ($700 million) bond. Evergrande is the global
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WEDNESDAY: Colder air is returning this morning. Highs this afternoon will be stuck in the 20’s for many of us with a westerly breeze to contend with. Gusts could reach 30 mph this morning. TONIGHT: Snow will move in this evening and favor areas along and south of I-70. Lows tonight will fall even further,
Continue Reading By ZEN SOO Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong authorities have announced a two-week ban on flights from the United States and seven other countries and are holding 2,500 passengers on a cruise ship for coronavirus testing as the city attempts to stem an emerging omicron outbreak. The two-week ban on passenger flights
Continue Readingolivertapia Washington (CNN) — El asalto al Capitolio se basó en una mentira sobre las elecciones de 2020. Y desde hace un año, se ha mentido sobre la insurrección misma. El violento ataque de los partidarios de Donald Trump al Capitolio ha sido objeto de una campaña de deshonestidad que comenzó en medio de la
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By Sandee LaMotte, CNN There are lots of great reasons to decide to go “dry” in January and give up alcohol. Perhaps you imbibed a bit too much over the holidays, or want to start a diet or exercise routine and can’t afford the calories or the zap in energy and motivation that drinking can
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